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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Xinkai Zhao, Xiaoyu Song, Danyang Wang, Lanjun Li, Pengfei Meng, Chong Fu, Long Wang, Wanyin Wei, Nan Yang, Yu Liu and Huaiyou Li
Straw mulching is a key method for controlling soil and water losses. Mulching costs may be reduced by applying it in strips rather than over entire areas. However, the effect of different straw mulching methods on the effectiveness of reducing soil eros...
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Witold Grzebisz, Alicja Niewiadomska, Jaroslaw Potarzycki and Agnieszka Andrzejewska
Phosphorus resources, both in phosphate rocks and in the soil, are limited. However, effective food production is not possible without the use of P fertilizers. Recognizing and eliminating or at least ameliorating factors (hot spots) that interfere with ...
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Qin Zhu, Xiaoting Wang, Shuang Liu, Yang Zhang, Zhonglin Pang and Enheng Wang
The thinning, leaning, and hardening of arable land in the black soil region of Northeast China has brought serious challenges to the sustainable development of agriculture. It is of great significance to explore suitable conservation tillage for the con...
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Ying Liu, Wenjing Shen, Kaixuan Fan, Weihao Pei and Shaomin Liu
The impacts of heavy metal pollution in arable soil on agricultural production, environmental health, and the wellbeing of urban and rural residents cannot be overlooked. It has become a significant bottleneck in achieving comprehensive rural revitalizat...
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Shun Zou, Chumin Huang, Yang Chen, Xiaolong Bai, Wangjun Li and Bin He
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) play crucial roles in tea planting, but information on how the long-term excessive application of chemical N fertilizer affected N and P in subtropical tea plantations remains limited. In this study, soil and leaf samples ...
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Min-Jee Kim, Jae-Eun Lee, Insuck Back, Kyoung Jae Lim and Changyeun Mo
Excessive total nitrogen (TN) content in topsoil is a major cause of eutrophication when nitrogen flows into water systems from soil losses. Therefore, TN content prediction is essential for establishing topsoil management systems and protecting aquatic ...
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Ying-Ying Jiang, Zhong-Xiu Sun, Ruo-Meng Wang, Hong-Ling Wang and Jia-Qing Wang
The Quaternary red soil widely distributed in China is an important arable land resource. A quantitative understanding of nutrient changes of Quaternary red soils under different land-use patterns is the necessary premise for effective regulation, manage...
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Hu Xu, Andong Cai, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang, Shaomin Huang, Boren Wang, Ping Zhu, Gilles Colinet, Nan Sun, Minggang Xu and Wenju Zhang
Partial substitution of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with manure (organic substitution) is highly recommended to minimize environmental risks without compromising crop productivity in intensive agricultural systems. However, our understanding of the eff...
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Tomasz Sosulski, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Hella Ellen Ahrends, Bozena Smreczak and Magdalena Szymanska
Two important goals of sustainable agriculture are food production and preserving and improving soil health. The soil organic carbon content is considered an indicator of soil health. The evaluation of the methods to increase the soil organic carbon cont...
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